Movie

Small Hotel

★ 7/10 · 1 votes 1939 1h 25m Released

Drama

Piccolo Hotel (aka Small Hotel) uses the titular establishment to weave together a vast tapestry of subplots, a la Grand Hotel. The guests include a domineering mother (Lola Braccini), her petulant daughter (Bianca Doria) and the daughter's gigolo boyfriend (Guido Notari). Also on hand is a worldly vamp (Laura Nucci) who also falls for the boyfriend, and the chronic-gambler son (Andrea Checchi) of the hotel's self-sacrificing landlady (Emma Grammatica). Though the film is set in Budapest, the characters are more Mediterranean than mittel-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.

Cast

Andrea Checchi Andrea Toth Emma Gramatica Martha Toth Laura Nucci Aurora Borg Mino Doro Gregory Bauer Bianca Doria Anna Fargas Lola Braccini Rosa Fargas